DIRECTOR RESIGNS FROM TROUBLED HOSPITAL

Tribune News ServicesCHICAGO TRIBUNE

The executive director of the hospital where two infants were switched at birth and where a woman was given the wrong corpse after her baby died has resigned.

Michael Halseth, executive director of the University of Virginia Medical Center since 1989, will become president and chief executive of Valley Health System, a group of hospitals, the university said Friday.

Hospital officials said the resignation was unrelated to the baby switch and corpse mixup that became public recently.

In a statement, Halseth said the Valley Health opportunity was presented to him in June, before the baby switch, which occurred in 1995, came to light.